The Devil's in the Details

If there's a Prometheus Vault book like my Alien Vault book, I'll buy it just to see all the little details (such as outlined in this article). But the movie seems such a mess overall, the beautiful details didn't seem to fit. Was there really a half-hour-plus of scenes removed?

I guess I'll need to wait for the super-deluxe-fanboi edition to see if it holds up on restoration.